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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2014
Applicant:
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Inventor:
David Paul Townend, London, GB;
Assignee:
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04L 5/0048 (2013.01); H04W 36/0083 (2013.01); H04W 48/20 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04W 48/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a wireless network such as Wi-Fi, a wireless access point connected to a client device monitors the quality of the link to the client device. When the client device sends probe frames indicative of the link to the connected access point being too low for continued data connectivity, the access points forwards connection data to a management server. When other access points receive the probe requests, they consult the management server to obtain the low channel quality data and use it as a threshold for determining whether to respond to the client device's probe request.